"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic Celebrity Journalism Volume 1 (1960s and 1970s).”
Zach Gibson reflects on the late-career achievement of the late novelist John Barth.
Mala Chatterjee reads Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” in the context of her own borderline diagnosis.
Grace Byron explores J. D. Salinger’s literary and personal legacies through the lens of “Hapworth 16, 1924.”
Samantha Rose Hill interviews Lyndsey Stonebridge about her new book “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience.”
Emily Adrian talks with Elisa Gabbert about her new collection of essays, “Any Person Is the Only Self.”
Katie Catulle reviews “A Journal of the Plague Years,” an anthology on the COVID-19 lockdown and aftermath.
Edmée Lepercq reviews Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat.”
Jonathan Liebson reviews Simon Kuper’s “Impossible City: Paris in the 21st Century.”
Manjula Martin speaks with Emily Raboteau about environmental writing and their recent climate crisis memoirs.
From underneath a sleeping baby, Nada Alic offers a dispatch “from the first draft of motherhood,” in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth.”
For AAPI month, Rajpreet Heir writes about the creative guidance she’s found in memoirs by AAPI authors.
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